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Ouyang Yu is an award-winning poet and novelist. His first novel, The Eastern Slope Chronicle, won the 2004 South Australian Festival Award for Innovation in Writing. His third novel, The English Class, won the 2011 NSW Premier's Award, and his 14th collection of poetry, Terminally Poetic (2020), won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Book in the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards. He was shortlisted for the Writer’s Prize in the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature and won the Fellowship from Creative Australia in late 2021 for writing a documentary novel, now complete in three volumes. And his eighth novel, All the Rivers Run South, was published in December 2023 by Puncher & Wattmann, which is also publishing his ninth novel, The Sun at Eight or Nine in mid-2024, and his first collection of short stories, The White Cockatoo Flowers, is out in early 2024 with Transit Lounge Publishing.

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自评：一看这就想起来，应该是我2012年九十月份来沪教书后，去看的当年那个名叫“重新发电”的双年展。每看一次这种展，我都会写若干诗，这是其中之一，收在我最近出的《简单》诗集中（2012-2015年在沪教书期间写的1700多首诗的诗集）。